Harvard Westlake
What is their flat screen broadcasting program? Love the countdown to next period feature, newscasting. So cool.
Heard from Marc Cormier, Sr. Product Mgr Gale Artemis
Google integrated now
Addressing changes in curriculum, tech, teaching methods
Always talk to students to make real time changes that matter to them.
Artemis platform
Huge literary criticism
Gives historic context so good for humanities, not just lit crit
Not yet searchable in EDS
MP3 Learn on the Go. Would our girls enjoy something like this??
Shannon discussed Harvard Westlake’s Renovation (Successes + Challenges)
Herman Miller chairs with wheels.
Students move, 20 mushroom stools. They love them.
Kickstools for high stacks.
Space connects to history dept, like EWS
Outlets have USB + electricity
Bright open airy feel. Beams found in construction—beautiful!
Ref Desk centrally located
Kids are reading their magazines! 70 subscriptions. By a lounge area, lower shelving.
BYOD school, but provide cords for printing. Thumb drives when printing connection fails.
Water fountain in back. Make sure your space has one if you can!
15 laptops for checkout when something goes wrong with a student’s. 1 day checkout .Renew if needed. Long term loaners from IT.
Under stairwell hidey place. Kids love it.
Alum photographer gave shots took from Ultralight. Fit space well.
GLASS—noisy, acoustic conditions. Get a sound engineer, not a physics person who knows sound. Michael M???
Use white noise makers
Elevator
Need shades if facing sun. Dim on gray days. Think about this in design.
Outlets breaking, decided to screw tables down.
Borrowing w/o checking out is same as stealing.
Flat wiring runs under carpet—allows for flexible design.
SILENT STUDY AREA has camera. Where extended timers go. 38 seats. Noticed it’s where they keep their bound periodical collection, too. Silent study allows for relaxed atmosphere everywhere else.
Only allow food where adults are. Gets loud, but it’s a popular place!
Heard from Marc Cormier, Sr. Product Mgr Gale Artemis
Google integrated now
Addressing changes in curriculum, tech, teaching methods
Always talk to students to make real time changes that matter to them.
Artemis platform
Huge literary criticism
Gives historic context so good for humanities, not just lit crit
Not yet searchable in EDS
MP3 Learn on the Go. Would our girls enjoy something like this??
Shannon discussed Harvard Westlake’s Renovation (Successes + Challenges)
Herman Miller chairs with wheels.
Students move, 20 mushroom stools. They love them.
Kickstools for high stacks.
Space connects to history dept, like EWS
Outlets have USB + electricity
Bright open airy feel. Beams found in construction—beautiful!
Ref Desk centrally located
Kids are reading their magazines! 70 subscriptions. By a lounge area, lower shelving.
BYOD school, but provide cords for printing. Thumb drives when printing connection fails.
Water fountain in back. Make sure your space has one if you can!
15 laptops for checkout when something goes wrong with a student’s. 1 day checkout .Renew if needed. Long term loaners from IT.
Under stairwell hidey place. Kids love it.
Alum photographer gave shots took from Ultralight. Fit space well.
GLASS—noisy, acoustic conditions. Get a sound engineer, not a physics person who knows sound. Michael M???
Use white noise makers
Elevator
Need shades if facing sun. Dim on gray days. Think about this in design.
Outlets breaking, decided to screw tables down.
Borrowing w/o checking out is same as stealing.
Flat wiring runs under carpet—allows for flexible design.
SILENT STUDY AREA has camera. Where extended timers go. 38 seats. Noticed it’s where they keep their bound periodical collection, too. Silent study allows for relaxed atmosphere everywhere else.
Only allow food where adults are. Gets loud, but it’s a popular place!
Source Illiteracy (Nora Murphy--Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy
Nora Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy in CA (girls, 9-12)
Has successfully embedded research curriculum in all 4 years of school.
*Need to see her Scope & Sequence
Frog vs. Axolotel analogy (trade journals)
Observe, categorize, ask questions.
Axotel resembles things we’re familiar with, but we aren’t sure.
Students are confused about both.
Missing piece between location & selection of sources. Gets in the way of research.
Source literacy requires knowledge of source types. What it is, where it exists, what it contains, who creates them, and why.
We are not part of culture. We take what time we can from teachers, but it’s not systematic.
Content knowledge is not a skill. We have to have it. Get it through personal interests, exploration, family exposure. Have to expose kids to sources continuously or they will forget. CREATE A BANK OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THEM to draw on in the future.
9th health class asks “Why isn’t everything organic?” What sources do you imagine will have relevant information for this topic? They don’t know much!!
How do we expand their source literacy beyond basic, standard publications?
US History
What is an oral history?
Plan—a unit, a year long goal, over next 3 years we will x, y, and z.
9th Create assignment, what is an oral history? Characteristics? Do something with it. If this is where it ends, won’t recall on their own.
Try this: Studying the impact of religious, cultural, or racial persecution.
Explore sources that contain oral histories:
Tips:
Source Banks
Word Banks
Create while teaching research
Write this down now. One day you won’t. Mix terms. What impact does this have on results?
Digital Sourcebank
Find, select, evaluate.
Likes programs that allow you to annotate usefulness, reconfigure for each kid based on interests/uses.
Pinterest—didn’t love.
Trello has a lot of possibilities
Best when kid creates own, or teacher, discipline.
Can we develop a source list of things you use already, we can then assess student use?
Ie: government class. Docs with political POV (intentional)
Federal agencies
Speeches
Classroom resource
Within class, discuss necessary bias.
Exploring China/Tibet Relationship
Preliminary/Inforal sources (idea generation)
Core soures
Necessary Bias—she needs to consider, but knows it represents a particular POV
Visual Texts
=categorizing own sources.
Allows for source assessment EARLY ON, not when bibliography is turned in.
Could add persistent links to database articles, print books.
Discussion following session:
Admin mandates Nora’s research scope & sequence
Goal by senior year they will think about a variety of sources banked over 4 years.
It’s messy. No 2 banks will be the same. Requires major teacher buy in to be sustainable .
Reaches out to college fresh to get their research assignments. What are they expected to know how to do? Quickly, without instruction? Get variety. All colleges are expecting the same skillset.
Are we college prep or are we college prep? Why aren’t we asking about our success??
Present to faculty:
Here’s what colleges expect our girls to know. How can we work together to accomplish?
Ask kids to reflect on research process. Set 3 goals for the next time they research.
What felt safe? What felt risky?
Is our curriculum mapped? Watch it to stay a month ahead, put together boards, libguides, resources.
Ask them to identify the central idea of a book if they are going to cite it. Read the intro. Read the whole chapter if pulling an idea from it.
Has successfully embedded research curriculum in all 4 years of school.
*Need to see her Scope & Sequence
Frog vs. Axolotel analogy (trade journals)
Observe, categorize, ask questions.
Axotel resembles things we’re familiar with, but we aren’t sure.
Students are confused about both.
Missing piece between location & selection of sources. Gets in the way of research.
Source literacy requires knowledge of source types. What it is, where it exists, what it contains, who creates them, and why.
We are not part of culture. We take what time we can from teachers, but it’s not systematic.
Content knowledge is not a skill. We have to have it. Get it through personal interests, exploration, family exposure. Have to expose kids to sources continuously or they will forget. CREATE A BANK OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THEM to draw on in the future.
9th health class asks “Why isn’t everything organic?” What sources do you imagine will have relevant information for this topic? They don’t know much!!
How do we expand their source literacy beyond basic, standard publications?
US History
What is an oral history?
Plan—a unit, a year long goal, over next 3 years we will x, y, and z.
9th Create assignment, what is an oral history? Characteristics? Do something with it. If this is where it ends, won’t recall on their own.
Try this: Studying the impact of religious, cultural, or racial persecution.
Explore sources that contain oral histories:
- Holocaust Museum
- Documents of the American South
- LOC Civil Rights Project
Tips:
Source Banks
Word Banks
Create while teaching research
Write this down now. One day you won’t. Mix terms. What impact does this have on results?
Digital Sourcebank
Find, select, evaluate.
Likes programs that allow you to annotate usefulness, reconfigure for each kid based on interests/uses.
Pinterest—didn’t love.
Trello has a lot of possibilities
Best when kid creates own, or teacher, discipline.
Can we develop a source list of things you use already, we can then assess student use?
Ie: government class. Docs with political POV (intentional)
Federal agencies
Speeches
Classroom resource
Within class, discuss necessary bias.
Exploring China/Tibet Relationship
Preliminary/Inforal sources (idea generation)
Core soures
Necessary Bias—she needs to consider, but knows it represents a particular POV
Visual Texts
=categorizing own sources.
Allows for source assessment EARLY ON, not when bibliography is turned in.
Could add persistent links to database articles, print books.
Discussion following session:
Admin mandates Nora’s research scope & sequence
Goal by senior year they will think about a variety of sources banked over 4 years.
It’s messy. No 2 banks will be the same. Requires major teacher buy in to be sustainable .
Reaches out to college fresh to get their research assignments. What are they expected to know how to do? Quickly, without instruction? Get variety. All colleges are expecting the same skillset.
Are we college prep or are we college prep? Why aren’t we asking about our success??
Present to faculty:
Here’s what colleges expect our girls to know. How can we work together to accomplish?
Ask kids to reflect on research process. Set 3 goals for the next time they research.
What felt safe? What felt risky?
Is our curriculum mapped? Watch it to stay a month ahead, put together boards, libguides, resources.
Ask them to identify the central idea of a book if they are going to cite it. Read the intro. Read the whole chapter if pulling an idea from it.